Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
AIDAN CHAMBERSAnd trust dies from ifs and buts
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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If a boy, if a man, asks you if you’re all right and you say yes, he’ll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It’s just the way they’re made.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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